National Nuclear Research Center to be established in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on the establishment of the "National Nuclear Research Center" under the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies on May 8.

According to the presidential order, the center is to be created taking into account the necessity of ensuring the use of nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes, improving financial and technical resources of the nuclear technologies sector, increasing highly-qualified human resources and expanding nuclear research in the country.